CINCINNATI, Ohio. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Many people living with diabetes don’t even know their hearts are already under attack. But groundbreaking research hopes to stop and even reverse the damage before it’s too late.

Two in five people will be told they have diabetes during their lifetime.

And people who have it are twice as likely to develop heart disease. One of the deadliest dangers? Diabetic cardiomyopathy.

“It will reduce the ability of the heart to pump the blood efficiently to the rest of the body,” explained Konstantinos Drosatos, PhD, molecular biologist at the University of Cincinnati.

And that impacts a person’s ability to walk, sleep, even breathe.

“You can see the heart as an engine. If we had to go to the gas station to fuel our heart daily, we would need about six to

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